Time Out polls luminaries about their top animated movies

Time Out New York has consulted an impressive field of animation luminaries to construct a list of the medium's 100 best movies. Akira was named frequently. As were the movies of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki in particular. A few named the works of Satoshi Kon. Masaaki Yuasa's Mind Game also got mutliple nods. However, the real interesting inclusion is Fantastic Mr. Fox director Wes Anderson's selection of End of Evangelion.

Anderson's picks included (in alphabetical order):

Akira

The Iron Giant

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

101 Dalmatians

Only Yesterday

Porco Rosso

Princess Mononoke

The Secret of NIMH

Spirited Away

Watership Down

Given how frequently critics have compared his movies to doll houses, maybe it needs to be said...

And, he wasn't alone. Some of the other picks that were interesting, not just naming the familiar Miyazaki classics, include...

London-based artist and animator David Blandy had a deep anime selection:

My Neighbor Totoro

Only Yesterday

Akira

Fantastic Planet

The Rescuers

Toy Story 2

The Secret World of Arrietty

Fist of the North Star

Barefoot Gen

The Jungle Book

“My Neighbor Totoro is a childhood fantasy of cat buses and flying monsters, twisting together Shinto, folktales and children trying to cope with an absent mother. I could have chosen ten Studio Ghibli films and it’d still be a great list. Only Yesterday is a beautiful and understated Studio Ghibli film directed by Isao Takahata. It reminds me of a piece of French New Wave, a contemporary woman’s reminiscences about childhood set against her present life, which gains extra resonance through the fact that it is animated. Every gesture and glance is so orchestrated, yet looks so natural. Akira was the monster that made me realize that all the animation I’d loved as a child was Japanese: Ulysses 31, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, ThunderCats…”

Experimental artist/animator Lilli Carré named:

Consuming Spirits

Fantastic Planet

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Spirited Away

Grave of the Fireflies

Heaven and Earth Magic

Akira

Conspirators of Pleasure

Fehérlófia

Perfect Blue

Oscar winning Dutch animator/illustrator Michael Dudok de Wit chose:

Bambi

Fantasia

Grave of the Fireflies

The Jungle Book

A Letter to Momo

My Neighbors the Yamadas

My Neighbor Totoro

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Spirited Away

Yellow Submarine

Geek favorite H.R. Giger named:

Chicken Run

Fantasia

Finding Nemo

Fritz the Cat

Heavy Metal

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Pinocchio

Spirited Away

Watership Down

Yellow Submarine

French indie animator Pierre-Luc Granjon named:

Spirited Away

Little Otik

Princess Mononoke

Tokyo Godfathers

The King and the Mockingbird

The Iron Giant

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Summer Days with Coo

Waltz with Bashir

The Triplets of Belleville

Robot Chicken's Seth Green was surprisingly mainstream in his picks:

Akira

The Iron Giant

The LEGO Movie

ParaNorman

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Tangled

Toy Story 3

Wall-E

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Wreck-It Ralph

3D animator/music video director David O'Reilly picked:

Mind Game

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Akira

Fantasia

Perfect Blue

Paprika

Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon

Up

Indie animator Bill Plympton also got in a Mind Game nod:

Mind Game

Yellow Submarine

Dumbo

How to Train Your Dragon

Toy Story 3

Song of the South

Bambi

Ernest & Celestine

Idiots and Angels

I Married a Strange Person!

Journalist Alex Dudok de Wit named:

Alice

Grave of the Fireflies

The Jungle Book

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Mind Game

My Neighbor Totoro

The Prince of Egypt

The King and the Mockingbird

Waltz with Bashir

When the Wind Blows

Variety's Peter Labuza had:

Waking Life

Spirited Away

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Iron Giant

Waltz With Bashir

Finding Nemo

It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Chicken Run

The Triplets of Belleville

Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors

Andrew Osmond, who has written on Hayao Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon, picked:

Bambi

Beauty and the Beast

Castle in the Sky

Fantasia

Grave of the Fireflies

The Incredibles

Kiki’s Delivery Service

The King and the Mockingbird

Night on the Galactic Railroad

Movie writer Tasha Robinson, who has covered anime, selected:

The Incredibles

Charlotte’s Web

Akira

Spirited Away

The Jungle Book

The Iron Giant

My Neighbor Totoro

Kirikou and the Sorceress

The Castle Of Cagliostro

The Triplets Of Belleville

Time Out's Keith Uhlich named:

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

The Adventures of Tintin

Sita Sings the Blues

The Iron Giant

The Triplets of Belleville

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Winnie the Pooh

Otaku News' Joe Curzon had:

My Neighbor Totoro

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Paprika

Tokyo Godfathers

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Mai Mai Miracle

Akira

Evangelion: 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone

Ghost in the Shell

Ghibli Blog's Daniel Thomas MacInnes named:

Only Yesterday

Whisper of the Heart

Fantasia

Pinocchio

The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun

Princess Mononoke

Gauche the Cellist

Night on the Galactic Railroad

Yellow Submarine

Waking Life

Anime Encylopedia's Helen McCarthy selected:

My Neighbor Totoro

Sleeping Beauty

Porco Rosso

Tokyo Godfathers

The Incredibles

Pom Poko

Lilo & Stitch

King Kong

Summer Wars

Japanese Cinema writer Jasper Sharp picked:

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Up

Mind Game

Grave of the Fireflies

The Book of the Dead

Coraline

Whisper of the Heart

Watership Down

The Iron Giant

Fantastic Planet

J-Pop Foundation's Niels Viveen selection included:

Spirited Away

Ghost in the Shell

My Neighbor Totoro

Whisper of the Heart

Yona Yona Penguin

Oblivion Island

The Wind Rises

Porco Rosso

Toy Story

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Jerry Beck, who was instrumental in bringing a number of classic anime releases to North America named: